Film Noir: Sweet Smell of Success

Date and Time
August 19, 2012
Event Details

Please join us on Sunday, August 19 at 2 p.m. for Alexander Mackendrick's Sweet Smell of Success (1957, 96 min) on the sixth floor of the Mid-Manhattan Library.

Film Noir is part of Mystery Summer and a full schedule is available online at: bit.ly/mysterysummer. All screenings are FREE and seating is first-come, first-served.

Description: Sweet Smell of Success is a 1957 American film noir made by Hill-Hecht-Lancaster Productions and released by United Artists.

"A brilliant foreshadowing to the abuse of information and perspective in the Internet age, a virtuosic, damning, and above all else, intoxicating portrait of American power lust. This is the original Social Network."
—Glenn Heath Jr., Slant Magazine

Please contact Karen Ginman at karenginman@nypl.org or Thomas Knowlton at thomasknowlton@nypl.org if you have any questions.